Colorado Center for the blind, spring 2012

I'm back again after several months without updates.

This last spring, I decided to leave CSU for a semester to go to Colorado center for the blind in Littleton CO To improve my life skills. CCB is a non-academic school, but a school to teach blind people the necessary skills that they may need in their daily life. The independent training program at CCB includes 4 main classes. Home management, travel and mobility, technology and Braille. The skills that the home management  class focuses on includes cooking, organizing your home, managing a budget, etc. to graduate , the student will have to cook  a dinner for 5 people, a mini meal for 15 and a graduate meal for at least 60 people.  The travel class goals are to help blind people to travel by themselves anywhere without depending on people. CCB requires all their students to use only and only a strait Wight NFB cane while attending the program. To graduate, the student will have to do several of independent routes, do a support drop, where you the student and the instructor will be taking somewhere in the city and the student will be asked to return to the center without asking for help. Finally, the student will have to do a final drop where they will be dropped somewhere in the city and they will be asked to return to the center by themselves. The last 2 classes have no set goals, but the student for Braille is required to learn using slate and stylus and learn both Braille grade 1 and 2. I will post what I have done while I was there in details later.

Thanks for reading.